Cryptocurrency and the collapsing caliphate: The high tech cash path left as jihadi households attempt to run away refugee camps

rom inside the secrecy of her camping tent in a vast camp in northeast Syria, Sara, a European woman associated with Isis, intensely messages people throughout the world asking them to send her cash.

” I simply require 15,000 dollars to get away to Turkey, Idlib or any place,” she composes on an encrypted app in al-Hol, a squalid desert camp holding 65,000 individuals, consisting of households who as soon as resided in the caliphate.

” I currently have $2,000,” she includes with a flick of desperation. “It’s a huge quantity I understand, however if you can spare anything.”